Jacob Rudolph Hendrik Neervoort van de Poll (23 June 1862 in
's-Hertogenbosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...
– 12 December 1924 in
Monaco
Monaco (; ), officially the Principality of Monaco (french: Principauté de Monaco; Ligurian: ; oc, Principat de Mónegue), is a sovereign city-state and microstate on the French Riviera a few kilometres west of the Italian region of Lig ...
) was a Dutch
entomologist
Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...
who specialised in
Coleoptera
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
. He was the vice-president of
Artis, the Amsterdam zoo; a member of the
Netherlands Entomological Society and the
Société entomologique de France
The Société entomologique de France, or French Entomological Society, is devoted to the study of insects. The society was founded in 1832 in Paris, France.
The society was created by eighteen Parisian entomologists on January 31, 1832. The first ...
. The butterfly ''
Troides vandepolli'' was named, by
Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven, curator of the Leiden Museum, in his honour.
Life
Jacob Neervoort, grew up in
Velsen with his aunts. In 1880 his stepfather died at the age of 42 and left the
Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum () is the national museum of the Netherlands dedicated to Dutch arts and history and is located in Amsterdam. The museum is located at the Museum Square in the borough of Amsterdam South, close to the Van Gogh Museum, the St ...
a collection of 52 paintings. For this gift his son was allowed to carry the name Van de Poll. Neervoort collected paintings, especially from the
Barbizon School and the
Hague School
The Hague School is a group of artists who lived and worked in The Hague between 1860 and 1890. Their work was heavily influenced by the Realism (visual arts), realist painters of the French Barbizon school. The painters of the Hague school genera ...
, travelled to the
Dutch Antilles and joined a diplomatic and trade delegation to Japan. In 1887 he married. Till 1894 they lived on
Herengracht
The Herengracht () is the second of four Amsterdam canals belonging to the canal belt and lies between the Singel and the Keizersgracht.
The Gouden Bocht (Golden Bend) in particular is known for its large and beautiful canal houses.
History
Th ...
, on the
Golden Bend
The Gouden Bocht (English: "Golden Bend") is the most prestigious part of the Herengracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands, between Leidsestraat and Vijzelstraat.
Until 1663 the Herengracht reached as far as the present Leidsegracht. From that year o ...
. Then the couple moved to ''Beukenstein'' in
Driebergen
Driebergen is a former village and municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht. It is first mentioned as Thriberghen in 1159. The former municipality of Driebergen existed until 1931, when it merged with Rijsenburg, to create the new municipali ...
.
Neervoort van de Poll amassed a vast beetle collection, much of it purchased from the
Paris
Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...
insect dealers
Auguste Sallé
Auguste Sallé (1820 – 5 May 1896, Paris) was a French traveller and entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera.
Following expeditions to the Southern States of the USA, the West Indies, Central America (especially Mexico), and Venezuela on beh ...
and
Émile Deyrolle. It included many expensive beetles, especially (
Jewel scarab
The ruteline genus ''Chrysina'', or jewel scarabs (not to be confused with jewel beetles, which are a different family), is a large genus of brightly colored, often metallic iridescent species, ranging from the southwestern edge of the United S ...
s). In the Japanese garden he had a sort of a
pagode
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built for his collection. The collection was sold on his death and specimens are now found in many museum collections.
Works
With the exception of a monograph on the Australian buprestid genus Astraeus C. et G. he published mostly short papers describing new species of showy beetles in the families
Buprestidae
Buprestidae is a family of beetles known as jewel beetles or metallic wood-boring beetles because of their glossy iridescent colors. Larvae of this family are known as flatheaded borers. The family is among the largest of the beetles, with some ...
,
Cerambycidae and
Scarabaeidae either from his own collection or from those of the
Leyden museum (now
Naturalis
Naturalis Biodiversity Center ( nl, Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis) is a national museum of natural history and a research center on biodiversity in Leiden, Netherlands. It was named the European Museum of the Year 2021.
Alth ...
or from the
Muséum national d'histoire naturelle
The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...
. These articles appeared in ''Notes from the Leyden Museum'' (most), ''
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift
''Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift'' is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering systematic and taxonomic entomology. It was established in 1857 as ''Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift'' and obtained its current title in 1875 ...
'', ''
Annales de la Société Entomologique de France'', ''
Tijdschrift voor Entomologie'' and ''
Bulletin de la Société entomologique de Belgique''.
Some beetles from Australia that bear his name
*''Cyclocranium Swierstrae'' v.d. Poll
*''Aphneope quadrimaculata'' v.d. Poll
*''Zoëdia longipes'' v.d. Poll
*''Zoëdia gracilipes'' v.d. Poll
*''Zoëdia tenuis'' v.d. Poll
*''Ochyra nana'' v.d. Poll
*''Mesolita inermis'' v.d. Poll
*''Mesolita Pascoei'' v.d. Poll.
[Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, 1890-1891, dl. 34.]
*''Typhocesis floccosa'' v.d. Poll
Sources
External links
Biographien der Entomologen der Weltat https://web.archive.org/web/20120425083429/http://sdei.de/
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1862 births
1924 deaths
Dutch entomologists
People from 's-Hertogenbosch
People from Velsen